The Year's Worst Music

Every year, Soundcheck presents "Critics Week," a series highlighting the best and worst of music of the year. Host John Schaefer is joined by music critics to discuss the year’s best- and worst- albums in pop, hip-hop, classical, opera, rock, jazz, world and Latin.

All week, we’ve cheered on the best – now for the rest. Music critics Maura Johnston and Chris Weingarten join us in the Soundcheck studio to talk about their picks for a VillageVoice.com series called “The 20 Worst Songs of 2010.”

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Jeremy
from Harlem

So, the Ringo/Joss Stone song is bad because of the man who sings it? How's the song? Seems to me, if the song is good, and it's performed well, it doesn't matter who sings it.And just because you know, and are intimately familiar with, Leonard Cohen and his songs, again, why not concentrate on the song that was laid down, and not on your disappointment about how much it veers away from your preconceptions about how it should be done.

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